Logic, Theology and Poetry in Boethius, Anselm, Abelard, and Alan of Lille: Words in the Absence of ThingsThis interdisciplinary study offers an interpretation of the major logical, philosophical/theological and poetic writings of Boethius, Abelard and Alan of Lille. The author examines their theories of language and the ways in which they explore how words illuminate things, how the mind comprehends God and how the individual reaches beatitude. |
Contents
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Translation Transfer and Transport | 7 |
A TwelfthCentury Hermeneutics of Suspicion | 62 |
Language and its Peregrinations to and from Divine Unity | 127 |
Language and the Ascensus Mentis ad Deum | 176 |
Notes | 185 |
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Abelard argues Alain de Lille Alan of Lille Alan's allegories Anticlaudianus arguments Aristotle Aristotle's arts attempts Augustine Augustine's axioms Bernard Silvestris Boethius Boethius's CCSL Christ Christian claim Comm commentary complete Consol Consolation of Philosophy constructed creatures describes desire Dinah distinction divine nature Dronke Eutychen evil faith fortune Gilbert of Poitiers hebdomadibus Heloise Heloise's hermeneias human Jacob Jephtha's Jephtha's daughter Lady Philosophy laments language logic Marenbon meaning Medieval metaphysics Middle Ages moral names narrative Neoplatonic nouns Odysseus paradox Peri hermeneias perspective Peter Abelard Peter the Chanter Pl vir planctu Platonic poem poetry position predicate problem reality reason Regulae rules Samson Scripture sense shift signify spiritual Stoic story struggle substance takes theology tractates tradition Trin Trinity true truth TSch TSum twelfth-century understanding unity University Press verbs vice virtue words and things